Just as the spring sun glares through your window and points an accusatory finger at your dust and cobwebs, so should you take a good look at your most recent attendance list and look for dusty and cobwebby names of non-attendees. (Please don’t let Cathy Smith read that sentence or she will revoke my AU grade from her Creative Writing course!)
Final attendance rosters will be distributed to department mailboxes on April 20. This attendance roster is a duplicate of your final grade roster. All the students appearing on this list are registered for your course, will appear on your grade roster and will need to be graded.
You have two options of spring cleaning your class list:
Ever since I found out (from CSI, my favorite program) that dust is really dead skin particles, I have stopped dusting. I refuse to remove the precious, albeit discarded, body parts of my loved ones. If you feel that way about your class lists, you don’t need to do anything about the students who are listed in your class but have never or have stopped attending. When you receive your grade roster just give them an F for the course. You don’t need to feel guilty. Withdrawal IS their responsibility.
If you are like the woman in my office who believes vacuuming is one of life’s peak recreational activities, you will want to withdraw the students who never attended or who stopped attending. You may feel that you don’t want to give an F if the student dropped out of the course and would rather withdraw them. You may do so on a Faculty Initiated Withdrawal form through Friday, April 29.
Please keep this April 29 deadline in mind. You cannot withdraw a student on the grade roster. There is no W bubble on the grade roster and there is no W option on the 115 screen.
So get out your class list Swiffer and either get rid of the students you don’t want to grade or resign yourself to giving an F to all the dusty and cobwebby registrants.
Deborah Benjamin
Registration and Records
04/14/2005 |